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An action taken on ehalf of, or in concert with, indiviuals, families, or populations to create or support an environment that promotes health. |
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| by the community health nurse - involves identifying individual cases or occurrences of specified diseases or other health-related conditions requiring services. |
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| A health professional who coordinates and directs the selection and use of health care services to meet client needs, maximize resource utilization, and minimize the expense of care |
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| One who initiates and brings about change - this role is performed in conjunction with the leadership role. |
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| involve direct provision of services to individuals, families, and occasionally groups of people. |
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| the process of creating temporary or permanent alliances of individuals or groups to achieve a specific purpose. coalitions have the advantage of fostering community wide problem solving and collaborative policy and program development |
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| A dynamic, transforming process of creating a powersharing partnership, or, put more practically, a process of shared decision making by two or more people. |
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| A synthesis of nursing knowledge and practice and the science and practice of public health, implemented via systematic use of the nursing process and other processes to promote health and prevent illness in population groups. |
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| A process by which community groups identify common goals and mobilize assets to implement strategies that address local concerns. |
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| The process of organizing and integrating services to best meet client needs in the most efficient manner possible. |
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| The process of helping the client to choose viable solutions to health problems. |
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| (of the community health nurses) are those designed to enhance the operation of the health care delivery system, resulting in better care for clients. Roles in this category include coordinator or care manager, collaborator and liason. |
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| A mode of service delivery in which each community health nurse was responsible for addressing all the health needs of a given population. |
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| the process of facilitating learning that leads to positive health behavior. |
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| An estimation of the likelihood that a disease or problem may exist and is based on a broad foundation of knowledge of the signs and symptoms of a variety of health problems and their contributing factors. |
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| The ability to influence the behavior of others. |
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| Provides a connection, relationship, or intercommunication. |
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| A person or group of people who work for and argue on behalf of policy formation or changes in policy that influence the health of population groups. |
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| POPULATION - ORIENTED ROLES |
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| Those directed toward promoting, maintaining, and restoring the health of the population and include those of case finder, leader and change agent. |
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| Essential health care services made universally accessible to all. |
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| A service delivery system in which nurses focus their activities and efforts on specifically designated health problems or specific target populations. |
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| The process of directing clients to resources required to meet their needs. |
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| One who explores phenomena observed in the world with the intent of understanding, explaining and ultimately controlling them. |
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| Someone who consciously or unconsciously demonstrates behavior to others who will perform a similar role. |
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| The application of commercial marketing technologies to the analysis, planning, execution and evaluation of programs designed to influence the voluntary behavior of target audiences to improve their personal welfare or that of their society. |
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